Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Valencia Carmen Gabaldon has achieved a European project of almost one million euros to conduct research in collaboration with the Dutch company Pure Air Solutions, which aims to turn the air emissions from industries into bioenergy. This project is part of the Marie Curie Training Networks (ITN) of the People call this year, in particular, the modality European Industrial Doctorates (EID), which involves the formation of pre-doctoral researchers, 50% in the university and 50% in the industrial environment.
EID promotes cooperation of universities and research centers with the business sector with the aim of promoting the transfer of knowledge to society to develop research careers that combine scientific excellence and business innovation.
Gabaldón's project, called TrainonSEC, was the first in the evaluation of the call for this year's European Industrial Doctorates mode and so far, there was no such coordinated by a Spanish center. TrainonSEC will run for four years and aims to advance in the so-called Clean Technologies, in order to make the European Union a dynamic region in the global modeling of sustainable control of pollution, and thus improve the quality of the life of its citizens. Therefore, the main goal of this initiative is to train four researchers in the search for environmental solutions so that industrial processes generate less emissions, to reduce energy demand and, in turn, produce and use bioenergy through of innovation in biotechnology.
Carmen Gabaldon explains that the TrainonSEC project is part of the demands that the EU has for new researchers in the field of applied research and "for us, as a research group, this is a new challenge to work with a European company in the formation of these scientists". Meanwhile, Albert Waalkens, from Pure Air Solutions, argues: "With this project we strengthen the cooperation with the University of Valencia's joint research programs. We look forward to the four new researchers who will join our company to develop new products. " Pure Air Solutions, located in Zwolle, focuses on the purification of industrial emissions into air, using different technologies, including the existing biological ones in the international market.
Carmen Gabaldon Garcia is a full-university professor at the University of Valencia and develops her research activities in the field of environmental engineering. She currently leads a group of fifteen researchers and their research is focused on the development of environmentally sustainable technologies for the treatment of industrial emissions in air and water, with working lines comprising primarily the elimination of volatile organic compounds in air by biological processes and photocatalytic and heavy metals biosorption in water. In 2011 Gabaldon got a project of the Research European Agency worth a million euros to promote academic and business collaboration through the mobility of researchers, which was also the first of its kind to be coordinated by a Valencian centre.
Last update: 3 de june de 2013 07:32.
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